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Object Number 2001.29.30444
Display Title [Baobab tree]: Baobab tree (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written in pencil on photograph (verso): "11952-3 / Exp. III 61-8 / 6 / Another baobab, same area as 5 / Given good idea of that piece / of country: the grass covering / the accacias [acacias] their size and sparsness [sparseness], the flat horizon / This tree is near Gautsche Pan / There is an outcropping of / rock and through the rock are / underground water source. / The water hole of Gautscha - a / permanent water hole is / near this tree. Baobabs seem / to be twice as high as anything / else in the landscape. / Marshall"; stamped on photograph (verso): "Please return / to / L. K. Marshall / 4 Bryant St. / Cambridge, Mass." and "For restricted use / not for reproduction / copy no. / L. Marshall"
Department Photographic
Date 1952-1953
Artist Anneliese Scherz
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Otjozondjupa / Nyae Nyae Conservancy / Gautscha
Dimensions Overall: 20.32 × 25.4001 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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